Ok so here is how I feel about the final season. If the season finale opener opens as the start of the wedding weekend and the finale as the train station I think I will be annoyed unless it depends on how well they use their story telling devices to complete the following...

- Regardless of they tell the story we need flashbacks. They already have presented how the mother and Ted have crossed paths multi times. I want to see more of how those were "just misses"
- I then want some of the courtship leading up to the marriage. We have seen Ted in multiple failed relationships. I need to feel closure on how the Mother is the one.

If the two bullets are satisfied and in a story telling matter that fit with the earlier seasons of the show I will be very happy with the final season.

I used to be firmly in the camp that I want to see some of the courtship between Ted and mother, but I can live with him meeting her the last episode. But, they HAVE to do it right. First of all, I DO want to know something about her so we get some idea of why Ted is attracted to her. To meet some random girl at the end and present her as mother without any reasoning, just seems like a waste of time. Second. they need to resolve the Ted-Robin thing once and for all, because Ted meeting the girl while he's still in love with Robin to me, just doesn't work, especially if the only meeting they show us is on that train platform. We need to know what it is about this girl that will make him stop pining for Robin.

So if we get to meet and understand the mother, and we get why it was "meant to be", then I'm fine with what they seem to be planning.